Section 21107.8 Of Article 3. Local Regulation From California Vehicle Code >> Division 11. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 3.
21107.8
. (a) (1) Any city or county may, by ordinance or
resolution, find and declare that there are privately owned and
maintained offstreet parking facilities as described in the ordinance
or resolution within the city or county that are generally held open
for use of the public for purposes of vehicular parking. Upon
enactment by a city or county of the ordinance or resolution,
Sections 22350, 23103, and 23109 and the provisions of Division 16.5
(commencing with Section 38000) shall apply to privately owned and
maintained offstreet parking facilities, except as provided in
subdivision (b).
(2) (A) If a city or county enacts an ordinance or resolution
authorized by paragraph (1), a city or county may include in that
ordinance or resolution authorization for the operator of a privately
owned and maintained offstreet parking facility to regulate
unauthorized parking in that facility.
(B) (i) If a city or county has exercised its authority pursuant
to subparagraph (A) and unauthorized parking is regulated in a
privately owned and maintained offstreet parking facility, the owner
or operator of that facility shall include in a parking fee invoice
instructions that describe the manner in which to contest the parking
fee invoice.
(ii) If a city or county has exercised its authority pursuant to
subparagraph (A) and unauthorized parking is regulated in a privately
owned and maintained offstreet parking facility, the owner or
operator of that facility shall not file with, or transmit to, the
Department of Motor Vehicles a parking fee invoice for the purpose of
having the Department of Motor Vehicles attempt to collect unpaid
parking fees by refusing to issue or renew a license pursuant to
Section 12808.1 or refusing to renew the registration of a vehicle
pursuant to Section 4760.
(b) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), an ordinance or
resolution enacted thereunder does not apply to any offstreet parking
facility described in that subdivision unless the owner or operator
has caused to be posted in a conspicuous place at each entrance to
that offstreet parking facility a notice not less than 17 by 22
inches in size with lettering not less than one inch in height, to
the effect that the offstreet parking facility is subject to public
moving vehicle laws and violators may be subject to a parking invoice
fee.
(2) If applicable, a parking receipt distributed to drivers shall
include language explicitly stating that violators may be subject to
a parking invoice fee.
(c) No ordinance or resolution shall be enacted under subdivision
(a) without a public hearing thereon and 10 days prior written notice
to the owner and operator of the privately owned and maintained
offstreet parking facility involved.
(d) Section 22507.8 may be enforced without enactment of an
ordinance or resolution as required under subdivision (a) or the
posting of a notice at each entrance to the offstreet parking
facility as required under paragraph (1) of subdivision (b).
(e) The department shall not be required to provide patrol or
enforce any provisions of this code on any privately owned and
maintained offstreet parking facility subject to the provisions of
this code under this section except those provisions applicable to
private property other than by action under this section.
(f) A city or county that authorizes private parking regulation
pursuant to this section shall, in its ordinance or resolution,
include provisions that include all of the following:
(1) Procedures of dispute resolution in accordance with those
procedures set forth in Section 40215, which shall include all of the
following:
(A) A written and publicly available dispute resolution policy
that includes specified time periods for notifications, review, and
appeal.
(B) An administrative hearing process that includes all of the
following:
(i) Options for a hearing in person or by mail.
(ii) Administrative review.
(iii) A hearing by a third-party examiner who has been adequately
trained and who provides an independent, objective, fair, and
impartial review.
(iv) Personal delivery or delivery by first-class mail of an
examiner's decision.
(v) Authority for the examiner to allow payment of the parking
charge in installments for persons showing evidence of inability to
pay the parking charge in full.
(2) A prohibition against incentives based on the number of
invoices issued or the number or percent of disputed invoices
adjudicated that uphold parking charges.
(3) A cap on a parking invoice fee that is commensurate with the
most nearly equivalent municipal parking fine.
(4) Measures to prevent a private parking regulator from
representing itself as a government enforcement agency, including a
prohibition against use of terminology in ordinances or resolutions,
and in parking fee invoices, which are restricted to governmental law
enforcement, and a requirement for a conspicuous statement on
parking fee invoices to the effect that "This parking charge notice
is not issued by the [local government]."